THE HELIOS BIBLIOS HOUR : THE SUMMER OF CHANGE HOTTER THAN JULY !

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Today in History: July 14,Today is Sunday, July 14, the 196th day of 2024. There are 170 days left in the year.On July 14, 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. In 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government.The revolt, which was scheduled to take place on July 14, would have seen up to 9,000 Black men from throughout the region kill any White man they encountered.some enslaved Black people privy to Vesey’s plans told their enslavers about the plot.In 1945, Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II.In 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall first arrived Tanzania to begin her study of the wild chimpanzees living there.In 2004, the Senate scuttled a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. In 2009, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina.In 2013, thousands of demonstrators across the country protested a Florida jury’s decision the day before to clear George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.In 2015, world powers and Iran struck a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program In 2016, terror struck Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists;In 2020, researchers reported that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. boosted people’s immune systems as scientists had hoped; the vaccine was developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.The Chabad Lubavitch sect was a spinoff of Baal Shem Tov's (c1700-1760) Hassidic movement. Non-Jewish Americans think its a minor 'denomination' of Judaism.